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TIL about William James Sidis: The Smartest Guy Ever?

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mv6o TIL In Yao Ming’s first game in Miami, the Heat passed out 8,000 fortune cookies. Yao was not angry with the promotion because he was not familiar with American stereotypes of Chinese. Yao said he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and guessed it must have been an American invention.
kOyZ4 TIL the film The Wolf of Wall Street was funded with money stolen through fraud
NjGQ TIL that Britain has been in conflicts continuously for 101 years
7rYYX TIL During the Cold War, the US tested its ejector seats out on bears.
VMl6D TIL you mostly breathe through one nostril at a time. Every few hours, your autonomic nervous system will switch nostrils to give the another one a break!